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Penn Pictures

Erin Pauwels, Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures: The Celebrity Photograph in Gilded Age New York.
(Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024)

BOOK REVIEW
by John Cooper

Given that the most familiar impression of Oscar Wilde derives from photographs taken by Napoleon Sarony, a retrospective of the famous nineteenth-century portraitist should be much anticipated by Wildeans, particularly as Sarony has for some time been a neglected figure. Erin Pauwels’s new book attempts to redress the balance.

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